Dear comrade! I would very much like to travel to Zurich for 2-3 weeks to work in the libraries for one project.216 My wife too. For now we do not have the papers, but we hope to obtain them soon. The question is whether we will be able to overcome financial difficulties. I would very much ask you to answer me frankly and without exaggeration on the following questions:

1) How much net income (that is, for me) can a report yield? Minimum and maximum? Topic: "Two Internationals": the growing division and split with the social-chauvinists throughout the world. Is it possible to increase the income with two reports and by how much?217 2) Will local comrades help us to settle cheaply as a pair and how much will it cost 3) a room (for two, even with just one bed) per week? the cheapest, preferably in a working-class family? 4) lunch at a canteen, if there is one (here we pay 65 centimes at the student one) 5) Morgenkaffee** and coffee in the evening, since we cannot, of course, set up our own household in Zurich?

* Here the manuscript breaks off. Editor.

** - morning breakfast. Editor.